Microbiologist Howard Urnovitz: Each Person’s Unique Ancestral Genes Interact with Viruses to Cause Chronic Disease
He calls it “The Golden Age of Virology,” a time for science to acknowledge that Koch’s Postulates1 published in 1884 and used to identify and associate bacteria, fungi and parasites with disease, cannot be used to associate diseases with viruses, which were not discovered until later.2 “Viruses do not act alone to cause disease,” says […]
COVID Shot Injury Claims Rarely Being Paid by U.S. Government
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that claims made under the Health and Human Services (HHS) Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) during the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic have risen 27 percent since the program started receiving claims in 2009. However, only three percent of the COVID shot injury […]
Maternal Mortality Rate in U.S. Increased 40 Percent During Pandemic
The United States has again secured its spot as “the most dangerous place” among high income countries to give birth, with the maternal mortality rate seeing a 40 percent increase from 2020-2021. These are the highest numbers since 1965. The U.S. has long ranked as the country with the highest mortality rates “by a significant […]
Pharma Developing Bird Flu Vaccine for Humans As Animals Get Sick
Pharmaceutical companies GSK (formerly known as GlaxoSmithKline), Moderna and CSL Seqirus announced that they are developing and ready to test human vaccines against avian influenza H5N1 (also known as bird flu) as a precautionary measure to prepare for what they believe may be a future pandemic.1 Now that certain strains of H5N1 have infected not […]
The Declining Standards of FDA Drug Approvals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a legal obligation to protect the public and ensure that the benefits of medicines outweigh the harms before being marketed to people. But the agency’s increasing reliance on pharmaceutical industry money has seen the FDA’s evidentiary standards for drug approvals significantly decline. The Need for Speed Since the enactment of […]